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Tools not Schools
You have to join their school, buy their stuff, Subscribe to their plan, program, coaching, website. That’s basically just commerce. They all have some good insights, recipes, workouts, breakthroughs but inevitably there isn’t a one size fits all system.
Sitting and smoking…
This phrase (Doc Levine’s) made us reevaluate sitting. According to Kelly Starret we should set our chairs at a height where “you can really use your legs to scoot powerfully back and forth” if you’re in an adjustable. Additionally we should sit upright, not leaning back “so you can turn on more musculature and build greater stability.”
How to Assess and Train Balance
I woke up sweating. 4 am. I sat up, stared out the window and the room swirled. Something was amiss.
My balance was gone. Any time I turned left I felt I was going to crash.
Can you multi task fitness?
Can you multi task fitness? No. Multi tasking is impossible. Only 2.5% of people can actually do it per this passage from over at the Cleveland Clinic: We’re really wired to be monotaskers, meaning that our brains can only focus on one task at a time, says neuropsychologist Cynthia Kubu, PhD. “When we think we’re […]
How to beat the Heat
It’s hot. Damn Hot. Real Hot. 4th of July weekend was THE HOTTEST weekend recorded. Ever. What can we do to beat the heat? We have AC, Central Air, wicking clothing and we’re still dropping like flies. Western Europe saw some 20,000 deaths in a recent unrelenting heat wave. It could happen here. And the heat will wreak havoc on your workouts too.
Running by the numbers
Running is simple. Left foot, right foot, repeat. Yet somewhere in that simplicity I’ve been gifted more fitness and life lessons than I can possibly share. I’ll try anyway. Here are some numbers that will help your running, your fitness, and maybe even your life.
I can’t prove it, I just know it’s true
There’s a great running gag on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ called ‘I can’t prove it; I just know it’s true’. Let’s play a round.
I can’t prove Brad Pitt was on Steroids for ‘Fight Club; I just know it’s true.
The Enemy is belly fat
Let’s do sit ups. I need to burn the fat around my lower abs.’
We get this one a lot. And ya know what, I don’t even correct people any more. As soon as I start to explain what’s wrong with that statement the eyes glaze over and their shoulders slump. No one wants the Truth.
Does exercise make you smarter?
Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki “found that subjects who’d ridden bikes for an hour had markedly better scores on tests of their prefrontal cortex function than those who’d spent the hour watching an episode of 24 instead.” (That just seems like a needless dig at 24 (decent show). Imagine they force fed ‘The Kardashians’ instead…).